rectum

rectum is a Latin form of rego, meaning “rule, govern; guide, direct, steer”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular neuter or perfect passive participle vocative singular neuter or perfect passive participle accusative singular neuter or supine nominative singular neuter.

Found 178 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 16: … en veniret, praeter ceteros in ea vicinitate eam partem causamque opera, studio, auctoritate defendit. etenim rectum putabat pro eorum honestate se pugnare propter quos ipse honestissimus inter suos numerabatur. postea quam vi …

Cicero, De Officiis 1.137: … ipsum, quod acerbitatis habet obiurgatio, significandum est, ipsius id causa, qui obiurgetur, esse susceptum. Rectum est autem etiam in illis contentionibus, quae cum inimicissimis fiunt, etiamsi nobis indigna audiamus, tamen …

All forms of rego (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.